{"id":43268,"date":"2019-01-28T10:56:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43268"},"modified":"2019-01-28T10:56:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:56:59","slug":"of-suspected-spies-cathedrals-and-western-media-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43268","title":{"rendered":"Of Suspected Spies & Cathedrals… and Western Media Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Of Suspected Spies & Cathedrals… and Western Media Hypocrisy<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s hilarious to see the double standards of Western media applied in the case of alleged American spy Paul Whelan who is being detained in Russia and facing trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whelan, a former US marine, was denied bail this week in a Moscow court after it emerged that he had been found in possession of state secrets while supposedly holidaying in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Western media widely aired the theory<\/a> that the American man has been \u201cset up\u201d by Russian state security after he had received a USB computer stick from someone while staying in a Moscow hotel last month. The person whom he received the disk from has not been identified, but presumably he or she was known to the American, otherwise why would he have accepted the item?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whelan claims he was in Russia as a tourist and that he didn\u2019t check the contents of the computer mini-disk at the time because he assumed it contained \u201cimages of a cathedral he had visited\u201d. He was reportedly arrested soon after receipt of the disk, on December 28, by Federal Security Service (FSB) officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This sounds eerily familiar. Remember the two Russian men who visited Salisbury in March last year at around the time of the alleged poisoning of former Kremlin spy Sergei Skripal? Months later, those two men were identified as \u201csuspects\u201d on British CCTV cameras whose images were broadcast by media. Both then promptly came forward to give an interview to Russian media in order to clear their names, which they confirmed as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petrov and Boshirov claimed they were in Salisbury around March 4 as tourists, not as Kremlin assassins as the British media were sensationally alleging. Asked why they were in Salisbury, the pair said it was to visit the medieval English town\u2019s \u201cfamous cathedral\u201d and its 123-meter spire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of Suspected Spies & Cathedrals… and Western Media Hypocrisy It\u2019s hilarious to see the double standards of Western media applied in the case of alleged American spy Paul Whelan who is being detained in Russia and facing trial. Whelan, a former US marine, was denied bail this week in a Moscow court after it emerged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[16113,1941,542,694,19394,8203,5027],"class_list":["post-43268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-finian-cunningham","tag-fsb","tag-moscow","tag-russia","tag-sergei-skripal","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-western-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43269,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43268\/revisions\/43269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}